Award Winners

Winner – Fiction Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward “A searing and profound Southern odyssey by National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward. In Jesmyn Ward’s first novel since her National Book Award–winning Salvage the Bones, this singular American writer brings the archetypal road novel into rural twenty-first-century America. Drawing on Morrison and Faulkner, The Odyssey and the Old…

Welcome! Cynthia Nixon is hosting. In addition to the awards, there will be two lifetime achievement awards: President Bill Clinton will present Lifetime Achievement Award to Scholastic Chairman, President and CEO Dick Robinson (BTW, the Best Books Index is a politics-free zone–so trigger warning: there will be a politician at the ceremony!) And Anne Hathaway, Academy…

The finalists for the 2017 National Book Award were announced this morning on CBS This Morning Save the Date November 14th 8-10PM–National Book Awards Finalists Reading (which will be livestreamed.) In NYC? Go! Tickets are $10 and can be purchased here November 15th–The winners will be announced at the National Book Awards gala –which will…

Awards season has officially crossed the pond with today’s announcement of the 10 longlisted novels nominated for the National Book Award. Save the Date October 4th–The finalists will be announced November 14th–National Book Awards Finalists Reading (which will be livestreamed) November 15th–The winners will be announced at the National Book Awards gala –which will also be…

Awards season marches on! Save the Date Winners will be announced October 17th. On Wednesday, The Man Booker prize committee announced the six novels that made it onto the shortlist, narrowing the field from thirteen. (See the longlist here.) The judges remarked that the novels, each in its own way, challenge and subtly shift our…

Let award season begin! If you are looking for a list of the brightest stars in the 2017 firmament (or bookshelf), this is a pretty great one. On July 17, the Man Booker Prize Longlist was announced, featuring 13 novels including THE MINISTRY OF UTMOST HAPPINESS, LINCOLN IN THE BARDO and THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD….

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